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On the Nature of the Gods by Cicero
epub |eng | 2018-03-13 | Author:Cicero [Cicero]

XXXIII. But if the art of nature gives life and increase to vegetables, without doubt it supports the earth itself; for, being impregnated with seeds, she produces every kind of ...
( Category: Medieval March 11,2020 )
The Essence of SUFISM by John Baldock
epub |eng | 2017-10-11 | Author:John Baldock

Junayd was asked about the nature of love. He answered: ‘Some say it is a state of harmony, and some say that it is altruism, and some say that it ...
( Category: Middle Eastern March 11,2020 )
Dante in Love by Harriet Rubin
epub |eng | 2004-07-15 | Author:Harriet Rubin

Part III Purgatorio (1308-12) …e tanto d’uno in altro vaneggiai, che li occhi per vaghezza ricopersi, e ’l pensamento in sogno trasmutati. …E come questa imagine rompeo sé per sé ...
( Category: Medieval March 10,2020 )
Euripides and the Politics of Form by Wohl Victoria
epub |eng | 2015-03-09 | Author:Wohl, Victoria.

CHAPTER 5 Broken Plays for a Broken World Suppliants suggests that tragedy, through its psychagogic effect on its audience, can have a real and material impact on the polis. If ...
( Category: Drama March 10,2020 )
Thrift by Samuel Smiles
epub |eng | 2018-10-04 | Author:Samuel Smiles [Smiles, Samuel]

* * * Great men are wise savers and wise spenders. Montesquieu has said of Alexander: "He found the first means of his prosperity and power in the greatness of ...
( Category: Medieval March 10,2020 )
Seeing through the Veil: Optical Theory and Medieval Allegory by Suzanne Conklin Akbari
epub |eng | 2004-03-09 | Author:Suzanne Conklin Akbari [Akbari, Suzanne Conklin]

Chapter Seven CHAUCER’S DREAM VISIONS In 1981 David Aers concluded an article with a footnote appealing for greater attention to the philosophical milieu which undoubtedly, if only indirectly, informed Chaucer’s ...
( Category: Medieval March 10,2020 )
Ovid on Cosmetics by Ovid Johnson Marguerite
epub |eng | 2015-09-27 | Author:Ovid,Johnson, Marguerite [Johnson, Marguerite]

Translation I was constantly saying ‘Desist from treating your locks’; now there is not a tress left for you to dye. Ah, but if you had allowed it, what was ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical March 10,2020 )
The Orations of Cicero (Imperium Romanum) by Cicero
epub |eng | 2016-12-21 | Author:Cicero

But that is probable which is accustomed generally to take place, or which depends upon the opinion of men, or which contains some resemblance to these properties, whether it be ...
( Category: Medieval March 9,2020 )
The Gender of Money in Middle English Literature by Diane Cady
epub |eng | | Author:Diane Cady

In language reminiscent of Plato, Gregory goes on to make the argument that all goods should be shared because all are one in the body of Christ:we must look after ...
( Category: Medieval March 8,2020 )
European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages by Burrow Colin Curtius Ernst Robert
epub |eng | 2013-03-03 | Author:Burrow, Colin, Curtius, Ernst Robert

Ignorance of a text and faulty reading can, then, be the causes of evil deeds. After the battle of Benevento (1266) the bones of the Hohenstaufen Manfred would not have ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical March 4,2020 )
Ogling Ladies by Summers Sandra Lindemann;
epub |eng | 2019-03-01 | Author:Summers, Sandra Lindemann;

7 Knight or Eye Candy? THE GENDERING GAZE IN HARTMANN VON AUE’S IWEIN The queen awakes from her nap and walks in on an informal gathering of knights who are ...
( Category: Women March 2,2020 )
Kings, Usurpers, and Concubines in the Chronicles of the Kings of Man and the Isles by R. Andrew McDonald
epub |eng | | Author:R. Andrew McDonald

Similarly, despite what may appear as the propensity of Manx dynasts to perpetrate violence against one another in the folios of the text (more below), we also see instances in ...
( Category: Medieval March 2,2020 )
In Pursuit of the Great Peace by Zhao Lu;
epub |eng | 2019-03-01 | Author:Zhao Lu;

Conclusion In this book, I have traced the people and texts in the Han dynasty that scholars often label as “Confucian,” “Daoist,” “Old Script,” “New Script,” and so forth, and ...
( Category: Asian March 2,2020 )
Natural History (Classics) by Pliny Gaius
epub, mobi |eng | 2004-02-04 | Author:Pliny, Gaius [Pliny, Gaius]

The effects of over-indulgence 137. Careful investigation reveals that no activity takes up more of a man’s life than wine-making, as if Nature had not given us a perfectly healthy ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical March 1,2020 )
Lectio Divina: The Medieval Experience of Reading (Cistercian Studies) by Duncan Robertson
azw3 |eng | 2011-11-30 | Author:Duncan Robertson [Robertson, Duncan]

“Listen willingly to holy readings.” The knowledge of sacred reading provides those who cultivate it with keenness of perception, increases their understanding, shakes off sluggishness, does away with idleness, shapes ...
( Category: History of Books February 29,2020 )

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